Installing The Theme

Download from TF

There are two ways of downloading the Theme. Both start in your Download tab.

You can download the WordPress zip file directly by choosing "Installable WordPress file only" or you download the whole deal with documentation, theme_demodata and probable plugin updates.

After doing so you will find the theme zip among some other files and folders we need later. This theme's zip is the file to upload via the WordPress Backend.

Upload to WP

Now you can upload the "Installable WordPress file only" or the zip file located in "All Files & Documentation". To do so please open your WordPress and click the menu where it says "Appearance" -> "Themes".

The goodweb.zip file is the file you want to upload if you go for the whole download.

After clicking "Install Now" the theme will be uploaded (may take a little while).

Then you can "Activate" it.

Next you will see the Theme preview, an important message, the needed and recommended plugins and some hints where to configure/customize the theme's settings.

Included Plugins

Plugins required or recommended for the theme are shown in a message box on top of every admin screen unless you install them :) or dismiss the message:

After clicking on one of the "Install Plugins" link shown above you see all available plugins in a table.

Here you can see which plugin is required (automatic installing is not possible due to security reasons, activation itself is automatic) or recommended. On hover you see the options you have with the plugin, basically "Install" and after that "Activate".

You can also use the "Bulk Actions" above the table to install and activate the plugins

Some plugins are bound to the theme and can only be used with it due to licensing terms. They will be deactivated when using other themes in this WP installation (RevSlider, Showbiz, FrontEnd Builder).

Demo Content

1. If you like some example content to see how things are done please go to the WP menu "Tools" | "Import" and choose Wordpress.

2. If you not already have the Import plugin installed, please do so:

3. The xml file is to be found in the "theme_demodata" folder.

4. After clicking "Upload file and import", please make sure to check the following inputs.

Customizing The Theme

The Theme Options are used to maintain certain parts of the theme in a quick fast way. Other design aspects should be handled via Child Themes and CSS customizations.

Find the settings here in the theme's customizer:

Customizer Tabs

You can use the Customizer for all theme settings. For example:

Switching between OnePager and MultiPager (General Layout)

Setting the Logo (Header)

Set the default background slider (Background)

Turn on/off Related Posts for Blog/Portfolio (Related Posts/Projects)

Set the main navigation (Navigation)

Set Front and Blog pages (Static Front Page)

Add you own (theme update independent) CSS hacks (Custom CSS)

The General Layout tab holds the main settings of the theme. You can choose if your theme :

animates the items appearing on the page

is a OnePager or MultiPager

has a basic dark or light style (more advanced styling should be done via the Custom CSS box or a Child theme)

has a fancy highlight color :)

use a different Google Web font as standard font (this is not recommended though since spaces and other design aspects are optimized for the standard font)

The Static Front Page tab allows you to set the first page a user will see when visiting your URL. You can set the blog page here too but there is no need to actually since Goodweb blogs will work without this setting too.

Please note that if you build a OnePager you need to put the built page in here as Front Page.

The Navigation is to be set in this tab. Please make sure you have created a menu before in the "Appearance" / "Menus" section of your WP installation. Otherwise the standard menu from WP will be shown which is all build pages.

Please also note that the order of the OnePager is build by the menu chosen here.

OnePager

Create OnePager Page

When using a OnePager you need to create a page that holds that OnePage content.

Please create a new page with the page template "OnePager".

You do not need to put content in here. You can choose a background slider here that works for the whole page.

Settings

1. In theme's customizer tab "General Layout" you can switch between having an OnePager or a MultiPager theme.

The MultiPager works like you are used to with other themes. You can skip the next steps, maybe the part about setting the main navigation and the static front page is interesting for you.

If you switch to an OnePager please read the next steps too.

2. Next step is to go back to the customizer and select the menu you would like to hold your OnePager pages.

The pages/posts dropped into the selected menu are the ones that are displayed in the navigation and the OnePager content (unless you you force the item with the checkbox to be a single page, see later).

A "Home" menu item will be installed automatically unless you force it to not do so.

3. To use the created OnePager as standard page you can use the "Static Front Page" tab from the customizer.

You do not need to set the blog page here but can do.

4. The menu is maintained in the WP menu "Appearance" -> "Menus".

Each page you drag around the menu will be displayed at this position inside the OnePager.

Unless you set the manual checkbox to force it to be a Single Page. Custom external links will also be shown as Single Pages of course.

You can set a certain navigation to be the main navigation here too.

How to Videos

Pages

Pages are defined by its Page Template.

Depending on this Template choice the layout and the functions of the page will be defined. The second thing that influences the page are the page options that may vary depending on which Template you choose.

Special Page Templates Blog, Portfolio and OnePager will be described later.

Blog

Blog Page & Defaults

First of all you have to create a page with a corresponding page template.

You can set several options in the theme's customizer that concern the output of the Blog Overview and Single Post view.

Please note that you need to have the Showbiz plugin installed if you want to use the Related Posts Feature.

Single Posts

Single Posts can be of different Post Formats. The options vary from the format you choose.

A featured image will be displayed in the Blog Overview if choosen (except you choose Video post format and do not force to display the featured image).

Portfolio

Portfolio Categories

First of all you should build Categories to put the Portfolio items in, these Categories are used to build unlimited portfolio pages:

Portfolio Item Options

You must define the featured image here and of which format the portfolio post is. Depending on this format different options will appear.

You could also set values that could overwrite the default values set in the theme's customizer here.

Please do not forget to add the portfolio post to at least one category to have the filter functionality.

Portfolio Page

Now you can create a new page and select the page templates "Portfolio" and choose layout options.

Most important the Categories to display on this page along with some other options.

You also set how many Portfolio items you want to have displayed on page at a time at most and how much in a row.

The Image Lock height crops the images to certain height. Please keep in mind that that height is to be calculated as if the images were 570px wide.

You can choose whether you want to include a Lightbox too. If so we offer you the possibility to use an autoplay gallery feature.

The "Display Page Content" determines the postion of the normal page content. Above the portfolio filter or below the portfolio pagination.

Background Slider

Sliders

To create a background slider you first need to add it via the "Background Slider Items" -> "Sliders" menu. You do not need to put any extra info in it. Just create it like you are used to create Categories for posts:

Slider Items Overview

The slides are created in the Background Slider Items menu. It looks and feels a lot like normal WordPress posts in the Overview. Please note a small preview and the corresponding slider:

Single Slide

Upload the two images of your choice. The first one appears in the head only, the second one under the page content. If you want you can create a big caption title and the caption itself. Do not forget to add the slide to a slider!

Including Slider

You can now select the slider in the Customizer as default background or in pages/posts/projects as head slider:

Frontend Builder

Start the Frontend Builder

After saving a draft or publishing your post you are able to use the Frontend Builder plugin. We have included a strongly customized version for the best compatibility with GoodWeb:

Frontend Builder Editor

Start with creating a new row for your content.

Then drag&drop and edit each item and see the live changes. Some elements need a refresh of the page though. You will see that when only a shortcode is printed out first (you can see this behaviour in the demo videos too).

Please check the Frontendbuilder Elements in the video preview below.

Frontend Builder Elements

Accordions

Buttons

Mediawall

Price Tables

Progress Bars

Slider Revolution

Services

Shortcodes

Tabs

Team Members

Videos

Widgets

Localization / Wording

Localization Plugin(s)

This theme comes with .mo and .po files and is ready for localization! Note that most of the steps that lead to a localized theme are not related to this theme specifically but are general information.

You can use qTranslate, poEdit, WPML, CodeStyling Localization (to name a few) to translate the theme.

You could for example install the free plugin "CodeStyling Localization" which makes localizing and adding new languages very comfortable:

Example Codestyling Localization

On this page you can get a link for your language that allows you to download files that turn your wordpress installation (the non theme files) into your desired language. You need the .mo and .po files for your language (Example link for german version here)

Plugin Updates (RevSlider 4.1 , Showbiz 1.4.1)Update: download "All Files&Documentation" from ThemeForest, inside plugins_update folder you find the plugin files, please note that the included plugins are only licensed for the use inside Goodweb